True stories. In English and Serbian. Mostly from Dorćol, Belgrade. Some from Amsterdam.

Why I stopped taking kids to the Belgrade Zoo

What would be the right caption under the first pic?“Please…kill me”?It sure felt like it at the time.I actually felt horrible taking that picture, unable to do anything for this little guy, but I felt it needed to be documented and shown.

I don’t think I’ve been to the Zoo since.Even our toddler back then completely understood why and never asked to go to the Zoo again.He saw with his own eyes and deeply felt the overwhelming misery, sadness and tragedy of each tortured soul we saw at this “Garden of Good Hope”, as they call the Hopeless Hell that is their home.

A.D.Wijnberg – VAZDANEŠTO

A.D. Wijnberg.
Born Belgrader.
Lives and works in Dorćol, Belgrade.
Fist poem published in 1980, age 6, in the famous "Au, što je škola zgodna" Serbian children's literature anthology/compilation.
First article published in 1990, in the the Yugoslavian "Rock" magazine. It was a review of a Suicidal Tendencies gig in Munich. It sucked and it was fantastic at the same time.
Doesn't feel the need to write fiction. Yet.
Will resort to fiction as soon as life stops being this exaggerated, surreal and interesting.
Runs on - as Life Of Agony nicely put it - Words and Music.
Is blessed and permanently inspired by the coolest two dudes ever, who constitute the other two thirds of the wonderful trilingual punk-funk collective that is Family.
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Is the proud author of all photos on this blog